Daylight Savings Time May Cost You Extra—Both in Terms of Money and Health

'The issue of whether daylight savings time (DST) should be abolished comes up at regular intervals, and for good reason.

As explained in the featured video, daylight saving time is intended to give you more access to daylight hours, thereby reducing energy costs and promoting healthy outdoor activities, and for nearly a century countries around the world have moved their clocks forwards in the spring and backward in the fall.

But is it really worth it? There doesn't appear to be any good reason for this time tinkering in today's modern age, and a number of countries, and even regions within countries, have opted out of DST.'